All My Life Lyrics – Lil Durk ft. J. Cole

[Intro: J. Cole]
Durkio told me he been on some positive sh!t, yeah, yeah
Lately, I just wanna show up and body some sh!t, yeah, yeah
Always been a lil' mathematician
Lately it's cash I'm getting
Got me losing count of these bags
I've been moving too fast
Hard times don't last, 'member when cops harrassed
Talking out my ass
Boy, you ain't sh!t but a b!tch with a badge

[Chorus: Lil Durk]
All my life (All my life)
They been trying to keep me down
(They been trying to keep me down)
All this time (All this time)
Never thought I would make it out
(Never thought I'd make it out)
They couldn't break me
They couldn't break mе (No, no)
They couldn't take me
Thеy couldn't take me (No)
All my life (All my life)
They been trying to keep me down
(They been trying to keep me down)

[Verse 1: Lil Durk]
I decided I had to finish
But the media called me a menace
I done sat with the mayor and politicians
I'm tryna change the image
You can't blame my past no more
I come from the trenches
Some said I'd never be a superstar
But I know I'm different (No, no, no)
I'm The Voice, but the system ain't give me a choice
Know some people that's still undeployed
I know a felon who tryna get FOID
Child support your only support
For a visit, I'm going through courts
Went to jail, they was chaining me up
And you know that I'm famous as f**k
See how you gone joke about stimulus?
But they really had came in the clutch
I know some kids wanna hurt theyself
Stop tryna take drugs, I refer to myself
Tryna better myself, tryna better my health but

[Chorus: Lil Durk & J. Cole]
All my life (All my life)
They been trying to keep me down
(They been trying to keep me down)
All this time (All this time)
Never thought I would make it out
(Never thought I'd make it out)
They couldn't break me
They couldn't break me (No, no)
They couldn't take me
They couldn't take me (No)
All my life (All my life)
They been trying to keep me down
(They been trying to keep me down, yeah)

[Verse 2: J. Cole]
First generation ghetto n!gga
Cole world, hello n!ggas
Made it out the city with my head on straight
N!ggas keep shooting up the lead out
Young Jordan Peele, gotta get out
But the sh!t that I spit out
Is a cheat code like I'm facing a RICO and
How a n!gga put a hit out
And another one, and, and another one
I got like a hundred of 'em
'Bout to lap n!ggas so they think they ahead of me
But I'm really in front of them
Now some of them fumbling they bags
F**king up the little crumbs that they had
A reminder to humble yourself
This sh!t could be gone in an instant
Me, I'm running long distance
All pistons firing
I be stuck between maybe retiring and
Feeling like I'm just not hitting my prime
These days seeing rappers be dying
Way before they even getting they shine
I never even heard of lil' buddy
'Til somebody murdered lil' buddy
Now I'm on the phone, searching lil' buddy name
Got 'em playing his tunes, all day in my room
Thinking, "Damn, this sh!t is wicked
To get they name buzzing some n!ggas
Just gotta go lay in a tomb"
And media thirsty for cl!cks
I got a new rule
If you ain't never posted a rapper when he was alive
You can't post about him after he get hit
It's simple, it's the principle
On any tempo, I'm invincible
Don't even rap, I just vent to you
I rather that than an interview
Most days
F**k 'em all like I'm going through a ho phase
Young n!gga shoot out the whip like road rage
I pray all of my dawgs stay so paid
And the only thing that kill 'em is old age

[Chorus: Lil Durk]
All my life (All my life)
They been trying to keep me down
(They been trying to keep me down)
All this time (All this time)
Never thought I would make it out
(Never thought I'd make it out)
They couldn't break me
They couldn't break me (No, no)
They couldn't take me
They couldn't take me (No)
All my life (All my life)
They been trying to keep me down
(They been trying to keep me down)